Announcing Knative 1.6 Release ¶

Published on: 2022-07-14 , Revised on: 2023-08-03

Announcing Knative 1.6 Release¶

A new version of Knative is now available across multiple components.

Follow the instructions in Installing Knative to install the components you require.

This release brings a number of smaller improvements to the core Knative Serving and Eventing components, and several improvements to specific plugins, in particular net-kourier, net-gateway-api, and eventing-rabbitmq.

Table of Contents¶

Serving
Eventing
kn CLI
Knative Operator
Networking Extensions
- Kourier plugin
- Gateway-API plugin
Eventing Extensions
- Apache Kafka Source
- RabbitMQ Broker and Source
Thank you contributors

Serving¶

Release Notes

💫 New Features & Changes¶

The HTTPRedirect feature is stable and the feature flag has been removed. This feature enabled use of the networking.knative.dev/httpOption annotation to configure HTTP -> HTTPS redirect on a per-service basis. #13084
The Serving API no longer rejects unknown fields, and instead relies on the kubernetes apiserver to prune (remove) those fields. #13095, #13111

Eventing¶

Release Notes

🐞 Bug Fixes¶

Parallel was creating invalid subscriptions in some cases. #6405

Client¶

Release Notes

💫 New Features & Changes¶

Eventing support for the --broker-config flag has been added to broker create #1700
Serving support for --probe-* flags have been added to manage service liveness and readiness #1697
Serving support for mounting EmptyDir and PersistentVolumeClaims has been added #1679, #1693

Operator¶

Release Notes

💫 New Features & Changes¶

The operator supports overriding the default broker class. #1123
Implement minAvailable in PodDisruptionBudget. #1125

🐞 Bug Fixes¶

The v1alpha1 versions have been removed. #1104

Networking Extensions¶

kourier plugin¶

💫 New Features & Changes¶

Add a new experimental configuration parameter to separate internal traffic for different namespaces by TCP port. This should enable use of NetworkPolicy with Knative. #852
Experimentally enable filtered secret watches when using AutoTLS. This should provide performance improvements in large clusters. #862

🐞 Bug Fixes¶

Fix SNI when using proxy_protocol. #869

Gateway-API plugin¶

💫 New Features & Changes¶

Adds support for AutoTLS #316

🐞 Bug Fixes¶

Network programming probes now respect the Service port of the gateway. #310

Eventing Extensions¶

Apache Kafka Source¶

🐞 Bug Fixes¶

Deletion of KafkaSource resources now properly cleans up internal scheduling resources. #1206

RabbitMQ Broker and Source¶

Breaking Changes¶

Some deprecated fine-grained configuration options have been removed from RabbitMQSource. #800
RabbitMQSource now uses a RabbitCluster reference like the Broker. #801
RabbitMQSource parameters have been re-arranged into logical groups. #810

💫 New Features & Changes¶

Message pre-fetch is now automatically set to 100, increasing steady-state throughput. #856
Added the ability to configure queue types in RabbitmqBrokerConfig. #808
Support for RabbitMQ ClusterReference connection secrets. #822

🐞 Bug Fixes¶

Fixed a bug where RabbitMQSource objects with retries configured could crash when receiving an error from the event destination. #831

Thank you, contributors¶

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